Some pro-gun bills advance while others founder

Democrats hate people who want to defend themselves, spew emotional non-truths to try to sway public opinion and are frustrated with the failure of their gun-hate legislation, much of which has been overturned. Concealed carry is in a majority of States and MORE guns have made us SAFER despite the phony claims of these haters. Most see through their lies about how you are better off without a gun. Sarah Brady herself made a possible illegal "straw purchase" when she bought her son a high-powered rifle. http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2002/03/22/2002-03-22_brady_shady_on_gun_rules_con.html As concealed carry States and gun ownership INCREASED, murder, robbery, and other violent crimes DECREASED. FBI stats don't lie like the gun-hate groups. The stats are empirical evidence as opposed to the discredited "studies" done by some in the medical profession who are nothing more than self-defense haters. That's why the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Heller in D.C.

If you own a gun you and your family are more likely to die of a gun death. Why? Because guns make it easy for an angry spouse of a depressed teenager to kill themselves or others. Very, very, rarely are guns used for self defense.

...whose parents were shot to death in a restaurant shooting as the three dined together in Texas. At the time, Texas law forced her to leave her gun in her car. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanna_Hupp#Death_of_parents

To think that a person NEEDS to have a weapon on them when they go out to eat here in Hampton Roads is simply crazy and/or shows paranoid tendencies. Whenever I see a person who isn't a police officer carrying a weapon openly in a restaurant, I leave and I tell the people operating the establishment why I'm leaving: I'm not comfortable being in the same place with some paranoid John Wayne wanna-be who could freak out and start shooting for who knows what reason. Their excuses for why they need to carry a weapon all the time just don't cut it with me, especially having lived here for over 19 years.

I have healthcare and am a firearms owner, I guess that makes me target for the elitist...

I earned my healthcare benefits as I earned the monies used to purchase my firearms... with hard work, sacrifice and by taking responsibility for myself. I do not expect or demand that anyone else pay for either of those things.

I too would like everyone to have healthcare and firearms; however I draw the line at the monies I earn being used to supply either to the masses. Oh, and not to mention that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” (notice it is plural) is an individual right, granted us by our creator, and guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States... healthcare is not delineated or enumerated as such!

"The committee did pass other bills expanding gun rights, including measures to allow concealed handguns to be carried in bars and stored in lockboxes inside cars."

Since these bills had already been passed and sent to the Governer for a signature how could they "pass" them?

Why should guns be easy to own? How does that make society safer? Yes we should all be able to own one, but only if done legally and with the proper screening...which amazingly we can already do So all this screaming is really about nothing as the legislation in question isn't actually TAKING AWAY a single right. Let's keep cutting education and complaining about not owning 37 guns. Please.

I like the fact that all of us assume that Mr. Marsh and the rest of the senators do not have guns....They might have them and just want the common citizen to be restricted. They live in a much different reality than the rest of us!

Why don't you use the money you spend on internet service to buy your own health insurance instead of asking everyone else to pay your way in life?

Or go back to school and get an advanced degree, then a better job, so you can buy your own insurance.

As a pro-gun citizen and member of VCDL, NRA, and other constitution defending organizations, I get a little disturbed at the actual wants of some of these organizations such as unfettered access to buy unlimited firearms at every retail source and to be able to carry them anywhere and everywhere. I mean if some of these organizations had their way, you’d be able to buy an AR-15 at Wal-Mart and set it next to you in church or a courtroom. This is the literal impression that can easily be had if you read into the wants of VCDL and the NRA. HOWEVER, I also know how guilty a politician is in being given an inch and taking a mile. When I see localities who fell to the ploy of gun registration only to have ZERO gun tolerance (Chicago, NYC, D.C.), I know that “sensible” gun laws don’t exist. There has been scores of former gun control folks who has revealed the tactics in their fight like “distortion”, “confusion”, and “vagueness” to get minor laws passed as a gateway to larger control methods. In other words, you cannot reason with gun control folks who base their position on emotion instead of facts!

The Democrats want no Citizens to have guns and only the elite to have health care. The Democrats are doing their utmost to ensure America no longer is a great country.